(Invited) High Voltage, Energy, and Power Density Miniature Batteries Formed Using Stacked Electrodeposited Bifacial Electrodes

Tuesday, 11 October 2022: 11:00
Room 216 (The Hilton Atlanta)
P. V. Braun (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Accessing high voltages (>9V) and high-power density in microbatteries with volumes below ~0.25 cm3 is challenging. At such scales energy density and voltage are highly constrained by packaging and serial integration of individual cells. Here, we demonstrate hermetically sealed, durable, compact (volume ≤ 0.165 cm3) lithium batteries (Li-LiCoO2 chemistry) with exceptionally low package volume (10.2%) in single- (~4 V), double- (~8 V) and triple-stacked (~12 V) configurations with energy densities reaching 990 Wh Kg-1 and 1929 Wh L-1 (triple-stacked battery discharged at C/10) and high power density for continuous and high-rate, high-frequency pulsed discharge (~124 mW cm-2 under continuous discharge for a triple stacked battery at C/2; ~75 mW cm-2 under pulsed discharge for double stacked battery at 2C). We achieve the high voltage-power-energy density landscape by using the current collectors as the package and stacked bifacial electrodes containing ~95% dense ultrahigh areal capacity (~50 mAh cm-2) electrodeposited LiCoO2 as cathode and lithium metal as anode. We demonstrate our microbatteries under ambient conditions powering wireless communication electronics, motors, and actuators, thus paving the way towards powering extremely small microdevices.